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Crypting a password

The password encryption mechanism is not automatic. You need to configure the crypted password yourself as BTM won't touch the loader's configuration file.

You can get a crypted version of your password with the bitronix.tm.utils.CryptoEngine class. It contains a main method so you can call it from the command line:

You can just give it the password to encrypt on the command line to get its crypted version:

By default, the DES cipher will be used. You can override that from the command line by specifying another cipher as a second argument. Please note that the only cipher that is distributed with the JVM by default is DES.

Safety

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This is not 100% safe as the password can be reverted. Take this feature as a convenience to avoid leaving an important password world-readable.

Using crypted password

Once you have the crypted version of your password, you just need to paste it instead of the plain text version. For instance in a Resource Loader configuration file:

or in the API calls:

BTM will automatically decrypt the password before using it to build the XA connection producer.

Limitation

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Only driver property called password can contain a crypted password. Other ones won't go through the decryption process.